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Perfect behaviour is born of complete indifference.

Cesare Pavese

The only joy in the world is to begin.
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Beginning Job One Liner World
Will power is only the tensile strength of one’s own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.
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Power Single Strength Willing
You will hear words old and spent and useless like costumes left over from yesterday’s parties.
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Costume Old Party Word Yourself
The only joy in the world is to begin. It is good to be alive because living is beginning, always, every moment.
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Alive Beginning Goodness Job Moments World
Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.
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Luxury Pay World
For women, history does not exist. Murasaki, Sappho, and Madame Lafayette might be their own contemporaries.
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Contemporary Existence History Woman
Many men on the point of an edifying death would be furious if they were suddenly restored to health.
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Death Furious Health Man Point Yourself
The man who cannot live with charity, sharing other men’s pain, is punished by feeling his own with intolerable anguish.
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Angry Charity Himself Live Man Pain Share
We can all do good deeds, but very few of us can think good thoughts.
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Goodness Thinking Work
A love thought: I love you so much that I could wish I had been born your brother, or had brought you into the world myself.
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Born Love Thinking World
You cannot insult a man more atrociously than by refusing to believe he is suffering .
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Insult Man Refusal Suffering Yourself
But the real, tremendous truth is this: suffering serves no purpose whatever.
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Purpose Reality Service Suffering Truth
We like to have work to do, so as to have the right to rest.
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Rest Right Work
Suicides are timid murderers. Masochism instead of Sadism.
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Character Nature Suicide
What is to come will emerge only after long suffering, long silence.
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Silence Suffering
I am the captain of my destiny, I do not abandon the ship in hard times, But, I do have sense enough not to go down with the ship.
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Abandonment Captain Destiny Enough Hard Time Myself

Perfect behaviour is born of complete indifference.

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